LIDAR investigation of properties of atmospheric aerosol

Abstract.

In the paper application of lidars for investigation of aerosol particle
size distribution and for observation of aerosol consisting of solid state particles
is presented. For size distribution the multiwavelength lidar and original method of
data analysis was applied. For registration of dust transported to Central Europe
from Sahara and Middle East deserts analysis of depolarization of the backscattered
signals was used. In order to solve the lidar equation measurements of total
atmospheric
optical depth by means of Microtops sun photometer was done. Mean size and the
aspect ratio of dust particles were determined by comparing of lidar observations
with data from T-matrix calculations.

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